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description: Mini spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum 'Bonnie' (young)): Arching striped leaves. Shrugs off most mistakes. Needs light 1,500 to 15,000 lux, humidity 40 to...
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Plants

# Mini spider plant
Chlorophytum comosum 'Bonnie' (young)

Beginner · Fine in a closed jar

Arching striped leaves. Shrugs off most mistakes.

## What the simulation uses

- Light: 1,500 to 15,000 lux (The brightness it grows well in.)

- Humidity: 40 to 90 % RH (Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.)

- Temperature: 13 to 27 °C (Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.)

- Dies at: below 2 or above 33 °C (Days beyond these temperatures kill it.)

- Soil pH: 6 to 7.2 pH (Soil acidity it prefers.)

- Grows up: 1 cm/month (How fast it gains height in good conditions.)

- Spreads: 1 cm/month (How fast its edge creeps outwards.)

- Copes with wet: fair (How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.)

- Copes with still air: excellent (Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.)

- Copes with shade: good (How well it holds on in dim light.)

- Copes with drying: good (How well it survives the jar drying out.)

- Water use: 0.06 ml/cm²/day (Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.)

- Leaf drop: 2 %/month (Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.)

- Soft leaves: no (Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.)

- Full size: 17.5 cm tall, 25 cm wide (Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.)

## Care

- Day length: 10 to 14 h

- Substrate: Moist

## What kills it

- waterlogged roots

## Description
Growers report it coping even in a bowl with mould in it. A small spider plant is easy to please. It tolerates a wide range of light and humidity, so it suits a first jar.

Also called spider plant, airplane plant.

Estimated, where sources were thin: rates and limits are horticultural estimates, not measured.

## Sources

- [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum)

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